My parents thought it would just be a "phase." I have been a fan since 1995. I've been buying Anime since 2001. Still here. My Mom can't understand how I can be entertained by "those Japanese cartoons" and my Dad thinks all Anime is Sailor Moon. They also can't understand why I insist on watching the original language. (They think subtitles are "annoying.") If they knew how much I've spent on Anime and merchandise--I'd be a dead lady. So, basically my parents think I'm weird. Well, I think my Dad's weird for listening to music from the 1920's and I don't understand why my Mom likes doing yard work, so I call it even.

My parents in a way support me and my hobbies. My dad use to watch anime movies and some shows with me, and we drew pictures and my mom like the fact that I am passionate about what I love and helps me out when making my cosplay outfits. They never put me down or whatever about anime, or any of my hobbies, they think it's pretty cool.

They don't really care too much lol. In fact, they think everything I watch is DBZ or Naruto. But they've only seen me watching shounen. I'm just glad they haven't seen me watch Anohana, Clannad or other emotional anime. If they walked in on me tearing up, it'd be pretty awkward lol.

my parents were a bit iffy about it when I started watching it in middle school with my childhood friends...tried to get me into girly crap and sports...then they left me alone when I joined the military.

now that I've been living back home...they don't care. I buy my own stuff when I have the money after paying my bills, so their pretty chill about it.

although...they tagged along with me and a friend to PMX one year...and they liked it O.O

so that pretty much says it all what their reaction to my hobbies are; they don't care that I watch anime or collect manga/anime.

the only thing that would shock them is if I do drugs or smoke or become an alcoholic, I don't do any of those things, not because I'm a health freak, but because they taste disgusting, I don't like bitter stuff. I've never felt the pressure to smoke or do drug.

My mom introduced anime to me when I was 5 by watching her favorite show; the original Gundam. When I was 7, my stepdad, mom, and I all watched Princess Mononoke and I was hooked to anime then. My stepdad was kinda on the fence with it for awhile but when I got older, I introduced him to Deathnote and he enjoys anime now as well. My dad on the other hand is a sports nut so I've tried to introduce him to sports related anime haha